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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 21 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.1634S, 121.6587WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:35:51 / 4:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6587° East, 24.1634° North, depth 32.956 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.956 km (20 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/04/24 / 2024-04-21 16:35:51 / April 21, 2024 @ 4:35 pm. Unique identifier: us7000mdp6. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdp6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 99 km (62 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Taoyuan City, Taipei (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 21 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6587° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1634° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.956 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-04-21 16:35:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 17:04:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 342 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mdp6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdp6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdp6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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